“I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"” TogetherSongOrderRealizingSituationCuttingCoupleBandMusicianOkayEngineersVerses Author:J. Robbins
“Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.” FeelsWholeHumanityOrderActorsTalentPoetWasteMusicianObligationPainterArtisticPerceiveVocationNeighbourSculptors Author:Pope John Paul II
“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.” WellsAbleArtistOrderActorsSuccessfulMusicianPainterAll TimeBeing SuccessfulGreat Artist Author:Lady Gaga
“I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.” YearsOrderRocksGrewBandGrew UpMusicianTwentiesOddPunkTouringPunk RockDjsRock BandsElectronic Music Author:Moby
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.” WellsHeartMeanTwoSoulPlayOrderAsksGrowsAnswersPayBrainStyleDegreesMusicianJazzNotesDuesRelateAsk MeHeart And SoulLife Style Author:Woody Shaw
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.” KindHomeRunningWantedSchoolMotherOrderFatherSocialMusicianSmartDoctorsWorkersExpectedLawyerDisappointedRunning AwayAcademicSocial WorkerAway From HomeInspectors Author:Hugh Masekela
“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.” MayPlayOrderLanguageSoundPoorMusicMusicianNotesNeighborToneStringsMasteryConventionalNormViolinIntervalsRenderingViolinistDiscrete Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.” PlayUseAbleFormCertainOrderChallengesFiveLessonsMusicianComplexesSevenIndianFifteenEleven Author:John McLaughlin
“When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.” TogetherFilmLawOrderFoundSocialIndustryMusicianBuiltTraditionMusicalConservativeStudiosPreservesCustomsPakistanMusic IndustryFilm And Music Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.” TryingOrderCan DoMusicianMassStandardsSellsSooner Or LaterCommodityAccommodate Author:Artie Shaw
“I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.” ThinkingLittlesArtistSufferingOrderBoysSuccessfulPlanetsMusicianCleverGreat Times Author:Ian Anderson
“People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.” PeopleWayFeelsCertainOrderStarsRocksMusicianLifestyleRock And RollRock StarHeroin Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.” OrderHeardFiguresTheoryMusician Author:George Russell
“Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."” ThinkingYoungOrderGrowsSpaceFineMusicianBiggerBrandsCorporateBubblesStampsExpandingCheques Author:M.I.A.
“In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it.” PeopleMatterAbleOrderStuffPayTaxesMusicianFunctionBillsStealingOur FamilyFrustratingMillionaire Author:Matt Snell
“A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.” MatterMomentsAbleSongOrderUniverseStarsCreationStrangeCreaturesMusicianHarmonyDistanceBrilliantSingersRhythmHostRootedOverwhelmedAngelicMeg Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy